Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...majestic instant in oils, the deadly carnage by grapeshot and musketry is stilled, and the course of history is reversed by a great man. Last week one of the finest U.S. battle tableaux, unseen for 75 years, went on view at the University of California's Berkeley campus...
...painting was Emanuel Leutze's 1854 work, Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth, which since 1892 has lain rolled up in a redwood chest in the basement of Berkeley's Hearst Gymnasium for Women. Larger than its companion piece, the unforgettable 22-ft. by 12-ft. Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851), the oil portrays a bigger than life-size scene of a crucial moment. On a scorching June day in 1778, Major General Charles Lee had ordered the Continental army to retreat before the redcoats. Then, in the nick of time, Washington, accompanied by a cockaded Alexander Hamilton...
This kind of gross distortion and dishonesty casts its shadow on the whole magazine. One reads the rest of the articles constantly questioning the "facts" presented, and certainly doubting the conclusions. No one wants to listen to moralizing about Vietnam or Berkeley from people who take truth so lightly...
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